16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you ¹  and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 16:3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out ²  to you.”

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ³  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ⁴  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁵  said, “Do you come in peace?”